Water-cooler equipment.



PATENTED DEC. 1, 1903.

J. T. COLE. WATER COOLER EQUIPMENT.

APPLIGATIGN TILED APR. 11, 1903.

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PATENT OFFICE.

WATER-COOLER EQU IIPM ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 745,571, dated December 1, 1903.

Application filed April 11, 1903.

T0 (10% whom/it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES T. coma citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Water-Cooler Equipments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of appurtenances commonly known as water-coolers, which are provided, as their more ordinary use, in oflices and households and in public places for supplying drinking-water furnished from time to time, as the supply requires replenishment, by dealers in such water. It is a common practice of such dealers to distribute the drinkin g-water to their customers in portable holders, such as sheet-metal cans and glass bottles, each containing a predetermined quanti ty, (usuallya nu mber of gallons,) and means have been provided for adapting the holder to be used in connection with a cooler by supporting it thereon in inverted position with its neck opening into a pipe-coil to discharge into the latter, wherein the water is cooled by ice in the cooler-chamber and from which it is drawn ed for drinking.

The primaryobject of my invention is to provide a novel, very simple, and substantial construction of holder-supporting equipment for such a water-cooler-which shall adapt a holder containing the supply of drinking-water to be readily seated at its neck on the cooler into communication with the pipe-coil therein by merely placing it in the cooler in inverted position and without requiring for sustaining the holder in itsposition or to prepare it for use that it or that any mechanism for the purpose be manipulated.

In the accompanyingdrawings,Figure l is a broken view, in vertical sectional elevation, of

a water-cooler provided with my improved holder'supporting equipment and showing a water-bottle in place thereon; and Fig. 2, a perspective view of the holder-support.

The water-cooler may involve any known or suitable general construction. That represented in the drawings comprises a coolertank A, resting on a bed a, supported on braced legs I), with a withdrawable andreplaceable waste-water receptacle 0 on the base of the tank, having a drinking-glass support 0 ex- Serial No. 152,171. (No model.)

tending from it and into which the tank dis= charges through a sealed drip-pipe d. In the tank A is contained a pipe'coil 2, leading to a draw-01f faucet B.

O is the holder-support, comprising, essen= tially, a neck f, provided about its outer end with an expanded rim g, forming a seat for tion f, and the neck f is contracted or formed tapering toward its open seating end, where it terminates in a nipple f. The support 0 is seated at its neckfin an opening is, formed through the top wall of the tank A, in which the support is stably retained, and at the nipplef' connection is made with the end of the rising leg 6 of the coil 6.

To adjust a holder D full of water on the cooler, the seal is first removed, (as the cork from its neck,) when the holder is tipped into the support 0 to cause its neck lto enter the neck f of the support and the shoulder portion of the holder to rest on the shoulder-seat g of the support against the gasket h, whereby the junction is rendered air-tight to. exclude dust and other foreign matter that would tend to contaminate the water. In tipping the holder to thus adjust it some of its contents flow into the coil, rising therein and in the neck'f, as indicated, to a level to or below which the mouth of the holder-neck Z reaches. Thereafter the space about the holder-neck being vented through the tube 71, which may be provided with a vent-cock (not shown) to exclude dust and the like, though such provision is not necessary, whenever the cock'B is opened water will flow, being drawn directly from the holder D through the coil, in which it may be cooled by a supply of ice (not shown) in the tank.

It is found in practice, particularly when the shoulder-seat g is unprovided with a gasket, that a special vent on the support 0 may be dispensed with.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with a water-cooler, a

support for a Water-holder in inverted position, comprising a neck communicating with a pipe-coil in the cooler-tank and an expanded rim about the outer end of said neck, and a Water-holder in inverted position on said support with its neck'within the neck of the support and its shoulder seating upon the rim thereof.

2. In combination with a water-cooler, a support for a Water-holder in inverted position, comprising a neck communicating with a pipe-coil in the cooler-tank and a gasketequipped expanded rim about the outer end of said neck, and a water-holder in inverted position on said support with its neck within the neck of the support and its shoulder seated upon the rim thereof.

3. In combination with a Water-cooler, a

support for a water-holder in inverted position, comprisinga tapering vented neck portion seated on the cooler-tank to open into the pipe-coil therein, and a dished seat for the shoulder of said holder about the outer end of the support-neck.

4:. In combination with a water-cooler, a support for a water-holder in inverted position, comprising a tapering vented neck portion seated on the cooler-tank to open into the pipe-coil therein, a vent-tube opening into said neck, and a dished gasket-equipped seat for the shoulder of said holder about the outer end of the support-neck.

. JAMES T. COLE.

In presence of L. HEISLAR, WALTER N. WINBERG. 

